A. H. Barnett is a professor at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and chairs its Department of Economics, International Studies, and Public Administration. Previously, he taught at Auburn University and the University of South Carolina at Columbia. His research focuses on health policy, environmental economics, and the deregulation of public utilities.

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and the director of health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. From 1981 to 1989 he served as the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy: Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform; American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Health Care Policy and Politics: Lessons from Four Countries; and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

David L. Kaserman is the Torchmark Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Previously, he taught at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Trade Commission, and Oakridge National Laboratory. Mr. Kaserman is the author of more than 100 publications in applied microeconomics and industrial organization. His research centers on vertical integration and contractual arrangements, regulation, antitrust law, telecommunications, and organ procurement policy.

Marvin H. Kosters is a resident scholar and the director of economic policy studies at AEI and the series editor of the AEI Evaluative Studies. He served as a senior economist to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and at the White House Office of the Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs. Mr. Kosters held a senior policy position at the U.S. Cost of Living Council and a research position at the RAND Corporation. He is the author of Wage Levels and Inequality (1998). He edited The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment (1996); Personal Saving, Consumption, and Tax Policy (1992); and Workers and Their Wages (1991). He is also the coeditor of Trade and Wages: Leveling Wages Down? (1994) and of Reforming Regulation (1980). Mr. Kosters has contributed to the American Economic Review and the Public Interest.